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= What is this hack? =
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One of the experiments from the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) experiment), has released a small amount of the data for educational purposes. However, it is hard to access and even more difficult to understand. Can we hack a better interface to these data? Can we create a website to allow others to use these data for education or art? Or can we do real '''science''' with these data ? I'll bring the data and explain what is in these datasets and some simple tools to interface with these data. Looking for hackers, coders, educators, artists and definitely designers, to figure out if this can be done.
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= The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) =
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==== What is this hack? ====


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One of the experiments from the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) experiment), has released a small amount of the data for educational purposes. However, it is hard to access and even more difficult to understand. Can we hack a better interface to these data? Can we create a website to allow others to use these data for education or art? Or can we do real '''science''' with these data ? I'll bring the data and explain what is in these datasets and some simple tools to interface with these data. Looking for hackers, coders, educators, artists and definitely designers, to figure out if this can be done.


  


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[http://lhc-machine-outreach.web.cern.ch/lhc-machine-outreach/images/cern-photos/CE0085M.jpg]
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``The Large Hadron Collider sits in a circular tunnel 27 km in circumference. The tunnel is buried around 50 to 175 m. underground. It straddles the Swiss and French borders on the outskirts of Geneva."
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=== [[LHC_Data_Hack/The Large Hadron Collider (LHC)]] ===


  


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``The LHC is designed to collide two counter rotating beams of protons or heavy ions. Proton-proton collisions are foreseen at an energy of 7 TeV per beam."
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=== [[LHC_Data_Hack/The Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) detector | The Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) detector]] ===


  


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[http://lhc-machine-outreach.web.cern.ch/lhc-machine-outreach/ LHC outreach page]
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= The Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) detector =  
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=== [[LHC_Data_Hack/The data for this hack | The data for this hack]] ===


  


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= The data for this hack =  
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=== The analysis chain ===


  


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== What is a muon? ==
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==== [[LHC_Data_Hack/Collisions in the detector | Collisions in the detector]] ====


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A muon is a subatomic particle, related to the electron, but 200 times more heavy!
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It possesses either a positive or negative charge. 
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==== Muons! Masses! ====


  


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Muons do not interact very often with atomic nuclei that make up the CMS detector, and so they travel through much of the material and are relatively easy to detect.
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<font color="red">'''Science Hack Day contribution!'''</font>


  


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== Where are these muons coming from? ==
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[[Image:lhd_screengrab_0.png|400px]]


  


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=== Calculating the mass from Classical Physics ===
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[http://mattbellis.com/dimuons.html Check out this interactive demo that accumulates the di-muon masses.]


  


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=== Calculating the mass from Special Relativity ===
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==== [[LHC_Hack_Day/Mass distributions | Mass distributions]]====


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<font color="red">'''Science Hack Day contribution!'''</font>


  


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= The analysis chain =
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[[Image:pre_einstein.png|200px]]


  


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== Collisions in the detector ==
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== Muons! Masses! ==
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==== [[LHC_Data_Hack/The parent particles and the original discoveries | The parent particles and the original discoveries]] ====


  


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== Mass distributions ==
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==== [[LHC_Data_Hack/Further code for exploration | Further code for exploration]] ====


  


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== The parent particles and the original discoveries ==
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==== The contributors ====


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= Further code for exploration =
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<font color="red">'''Science Hack Day contributors'''</font>


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* Matt Bellis


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* Lynn Root


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* Aaron Culich


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* Morris Mwanga (Kenya ambassador)


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* Tim Clem


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* Kevin


  


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= The contributors =
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Even before this project begins, thanks goes out to the CERN and Fermilab CMS collaborators who have helped get this off the ground.


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* Tom McCauley (FNAL)


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* Tom Jordan (FNAL)


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* Giulio Eulisse, developer of ig and iSpy (FNAL) 


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* Kati Lassila-Perini (CERN)


Latest revision as of 23:37, 17 November 2011


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Contents





  What is this hack? 


One of the experiments from the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) experiment), has released a small amount of the data for educational purposes. However, it is hard to access and even more difficult to understand. Can we hack a better interface to these data? Can we create a website to allow others to use these data for education or art? Or can we do real science with these data ? I'll bring the data and explain what is in these datasets and some simple tools to interface with these data. Looking for hackers, coders, educators, artists and definitely designers, to figure out if this can be done.





  LHC_Data_Hack/The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) 


   The Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) detector 




   The data for this hack 


  The analysis chain 


   Collisions in the detector 


  Muons! Masses! 


Science Hack Day contribution!

Lhd screengrab 0.png

Check out this interactive demo that accumulates the di-muon masses.



   Mass distributions


Science Hack Day contribution!

Pre einstein.png





   The parent particles and the original discoveries 


   Further code for exploration 


  The contributors 


Ldh hackers 0.jpg

Science Hack Day contributors



  •  Matt Bellis

  •  Lynn Root

  •  Aaron Culich

  •  Morris Mwanga (Kenya ambassador)

  •  Tim Clem

  •  Kevin



Even before this project begins, thanks goes out to the CERN and Fermilab CMS collaborators who have helped get this off the ground.



  •  Tom McCauley (FNAL)

  •  Tom Jordan (FNAL)

  •  Giulio Eulisse, developer of ig and iSpy (FNAL) 

  •  Kati Lassila-Perini (CERN)








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